Meaning of "appease" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD APPEASE

From Old French apaisier, from pais peace, from Latin pax.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF APPEASE

appease  [əˈpiːz]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF APPEASE

Appease is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb appease in English.

WHAT DOES APPEASE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Appeasement

Appeasement in a political context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict. The term is most often applied to the foreign policy of the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany between 1937 and 1939. His policies of avoiding war with Germany have been the subject of intense debate for seventy years among academics, politicians and diplomats. The historians' assessments have ranged from condemnation for allowing Adolf Hitler's Germany to grow too strong, to the judgment that he had no alternative and acted in Britain's best interests. At the time, these concessions were widely seen as positive, and the Munich Pact concluded on 30 September 1938 among Germany, Britain, France, and Italy prompted Chamberlain to announce that he had secured "peace for our time."...

Definition of appease in the English dictionary

The definition of appease in the dictionary is to calm, pacify, or soothe, esp by acceding to the demands of. Other definition of appease is to satisfy or quell.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO APPEASE

PRESENT

Present

I appease

you appease

he/she/it appeases

we appease

you appease

they appease

Present continuous

I am appeasing

you are appeasing

he/she/it is appeasing

we are appeasing

you are appeasing

they are appeasing

Present perfect

I have appeased

you have appeased

he/she/it has appeased

we have appeased

you have appeased

they have appeased

Present perfect continuous

I have been appeasing

you have been appeasing

he/she/it has been appeasing

we have been appeasing

you have been appeasing

they have been appeasing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I appeased

you appeased

he/she/it appeased

we appeased

you appeased

they appeased

Past continuous

I was appeasing

you were appeasing

he/she/it was appeasing

we were appeasing

you were appeasing

they were appeasing

Past perfect

I had appeased

you had appeased

he/she/it had appeased

we had appeased

you had appeased

they had appeased

Past perfect continuous

I had been appeasing

you had been appeasing

he/she/it had been appeasing

we had been appeasing

you had been appeasing

they had been appeasing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will appease

you will appease

he/she/it will appease

we will appease

you will appease

they will appease

Future continuous

I will be appeasing

you will be appeasing

he/she/it will be appeasing

we will be appeasing

you will be appeasing

they will be appeasing

Future perfect

I will have appeased

you will have appeased

he/she/it will have appeased

we will have appeased

you will have appeased

they will have appeased

Future perfect continuous

I will have been appeasing

you will have been appeasing

he/she/it will have been appeasing

we will have been appeasing

you will have been appeasing

they will have been appeasing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would appease

you would appease

he/she/it would appease

we would appease

you would appease

they would appease

Conditional continuous

I would be appeasing

you would be appeasing

he/she/it would be appeasing

we would be appeasing

you would be appeasing

they would be appeasing

Conditional perfect

I would have appease

you would have appease

he/she/it would have appease

we would have appease

you would have appease

they would have appease

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been appeasing

you would have been appeasing

he/she/it would have been appeasing

we would have been appeasing

you would have been appeasing

they would have been appeasing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you appease
we let´s appease
you appease

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to appease

Past participle

appeased

Present Participle

appeasing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «APPEASE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «appease» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of appease

allay · alleviate · assuage · blunt · calm · compose · conciliate · diminish · ease · lessen · lull · mitigate · mollify · pacify · placate · quell · quench · quiet · relieve · satisfy · soothe · subdue · tranquillize

TRANSLATION OF APPEASE

Find out the translation of appease to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of appease from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «appease» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 姑息
• Translator English - Spanish: apaciguar
• English: appease
• Translator English - Hindi: तुष्टि
• Translator English - Arabic: استرضاء
• Translator English - Russian: успокоить
• Translator English - Portuguese: apaziguar
• Translator English - Bengali: প্রশমিত করা
• Translator English - French: calmer
• Translator English - Malay: Nyenyak
• Translator English - German: beschwichtigen
• Translator English - Japanese: なだめる
• Translator English - Korean: 달래다
• Translator English - Javanese: Nyenengake
• Translator English - Vietnamese: an ủi
• Translator English - Tamil: சமாதானப்படுத்த
• Translator English - Marathi: शांतता
• Translator English - Turkish: yatıştırmak
• Translator English - Italian: essere acquiescente con
• Translator English - Polish: udobruchać
• Translator English - Ukrainian: заспокоїти
• Translator English - Romanian: potoli setea
• Translator English - Greek: κατευνάσει
• Translator English - Afrikaans: paai
• Translator English - Swedish: blidka
• Translator English - Norwegian: blid

5 QUOTES WITH «APPEASE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word appease.

1

Kathleen Battle

I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's say to satisfy - any opera urgings that my public has, I'll put in an aria.

2

Jon Favreau

I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.

3

Soledad O'Brien

It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.

4

Jil Sander

One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.

5

Meles Zenawi

It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «APPEASE»

Discover the use of appease in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to appease and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

English Synonymes Explained, in Alphabetical Order

APPEASE, c. To allay. CALM, in French calmer, from almus bright, signifies to make bright. PACIFY, in Latin pacifico, compounded of par and facio, signifies to make ace or peaceable. QUIE , in French quiet, Latin quietus, from quies rest, ...

George Crabb, 1816

English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With ...

86 APPEASE. APPOINT. The hero answers with the respect due to the beautiful appearance she made. Steele. Some who had the most assuming air went directly of themselves to error without expecting a conductor. Parnelu Her motions ...

George Crabb, 1818

Hindu Rites, Rituals, Customs and Traditions: A to Z on the ...

It must be free of salt and oil. It must not be tamsik. One must offer prayers to Surya and read or listen to the prescribed katha. Only then one must eat. To appease Surya one should wear ruby. When inclined to give charity one must give wheat, ...

Prem P. Bhalla, 2006

Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth

Appease,. appease,. appease. “I am skeptical that we have even learned anything from this attack,” declared Professor Aamir Mufti of UCLA at a teach-in about September 11.l What America had failed to learn, of course, was that its foreign ...

Ben Shapiro, 2004

Sand Against the Wind

Try to appease him until you have somewhere safe to go, and then come see me again.” He stood. Appease him. That's what her mother had tried to say. Appease him until she had some safe place to go, Elwood had said. Where could she go ...

Barbara Cueter, 2008

Ultimate Homebased Business Handbook

Regardless of the source of the customer service complaint or problem, always look for ways to appease the customer first, quickly and without hesitation. Once you have done this, turn your attention to the source of the problem or complaint.

James Stephenson, Rich Mintzer, 2008

Ma'asei Avos: stories and teachings from the lives of the ...

jJipn - nisi? niypi one who is not easily angered yet is difficult to appease* — his loss is offset by his gain*; one who is not easily angered and is easily appeased — he is pious; and, one who is easily angered and is difficult to appease* — he ...

David Haddad, 2007

Wake Up to Your (W)hole Life: Make Sense of Your Life, Now

The prime directive of our life becomes to either appease their wrath when they are displeased and/or to please and idolize their awesome powers when they are happy with us. We do all this without any conscious awareness for one purpose: ...

Alaya Chadwick, 2010

Questioning God

The same word which we have translated ''mediate'' is from the root for prayer, intercede, and in that sense, ''appease.'' R. Abbahu is forced to accept that the problem is appeasement in the two-party relationship, particularly with God, and so ...

John D. Caputo, Mark Dooley, Michael J. Scanlon, 2001

Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews, Also Concerning ...

Propitio is a Wine word, and used not only by Plautus, but by Suetonius and Pliny » and that to appease, attone, please, or turn away anger . Most Translations render it by expio, ad expiandum peccata ; but the signification of that word is also ...

John Owen, 1668

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «APPEASE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term appease is used in the context of the following news items.

Toronto Raptors Appease Fanbase by Signing Cory Joseph

It seems this move was made first and foremost to appease the Raptor fanbase, a passionate but confused group after this year's undignified ... «RantSports, Jul 15»

Jordaan writes off R100-m electricity debt to appease big business

According to a City Press report, the Nelson Mandela Bay metro has agreed to write off two thirds of an electricity debt owed by 13 ... «DestinyMan, Jul 15»

'Padayatra', 'bhajan', marriage of frogs to appease rain gods

Delayed rains are forcing Bidar farmers to seek help of the Rain Gods through prayers, padayatras, mass feedings and strange rituals like ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»

3-day ritual to appease mountain spirits

KUNDASANG: An elaborate three-day 'Monolob-Monogit Aki Nabalu' ritual ceremony steeped in ancient Kadazandusun customs and ... «The Borneo Post, Jul 15»

Islamists only want one thing. We cannot appease them

David Cameron calls Isil an “existential threat” to the Western way of life. On the face of it, that seems ridiculous. How could a bunch of relatively ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»

Three-day ceremony to appease Mount Kinabalu spirits begins

KOTA KINABALU: The sacrifice of seven chickens began the first of a three-day ceremony at the foothills of Mount Kinabalu as part of an ... «The Star Online, Jul 15»

Dollar Tree to sell 7 Maine stores to appease trade officials

PORTLAND, Maine — Discount retailer Dollar Tree will sell seven Maine stores to a private equity firm as a condition of its $9.2 billion ... «Bangor Daily News, Jul 15»

EUR/USD: Disappointing US NFP fails to appease bulls – FXStreet

FXStreet (Barcelona) - Valeria Bednarik, Chief Analyst at FXStreet, offers the technical outlook and key levels for EUR/USD, noting that upside ... «FXStreet, Jul 15»

F1 strategy group makes moves to appease fans

Formula One is to dump the complex penalties system that has enraged fans and ruined races for some of the sport's top teams. The F1 ... «The Times, Jul 15»

Mondelez in talks to sell French coffee brand to appease regulators …

Mondelez (MDLZ -0.6%) is in talks with multiple potential buyers to sell its Carte Noire French coffee brand, and thus placate European antitrust ... «Seeking Alpha, Jul 15»